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Entries Tagged as 'Climate Change'

Greens re-elect commercially incompetent Bob Brown

August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

An after election comment from Bob Brown was “we want to put a Carbon Tax on the polluters and not on the Australian taxpayer”. What an moronic economic statement! Place an tax on business in any shape or form and the costs are immediately passed on to the consumers – the Australian taxpayers. With Brown’s [...]

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Tags: Climate Change · Federal election · Government & political

Climate change for 150,000,000 years

August 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Last year and again last month, I spent time flying through North & West Queensland up to Cape York Peninsula. Winton is my favorite country town in Australia and the area around Winton, Richmond, Cloncurry and Hughenden is characterised by the quantity and quality of dinosaur and pliosaur fossils. These fossils date back to 150,000,000 [...]

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Tags: Climate Change

John Brumby doesn’t know the difference between floods, climate change and rising sea levels.

August 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Quick note with more to come. Not technically perfect but good enough for the moment East Gippsland Shire Council decided to grant a permit for a multi level building at Lakes Entrance. One objector, Ms L Taip, took the matter to appeal at VCAT. East Gippsland Management Authority then obtained leave to object on the [...]

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Tags: Climate Change · East Gippsland Shire Council